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The Wyoming ITC opened at Dry Fork Station north of Gillette, Wyoming in May of 2018. The technologies developed at the facility will maintain jobs, local and state economies and keeps electricity prices low for millions of people around the globe.

The ITC is a private/public partnership between the State of Wyoming, Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. The facility provides space for researchers to test Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS) technologies using 20 MW of coal derived flue gas. Along with testing capture technologies, additional research has studied converting CO2 into marketable commodities.

The ITC is one of a handful of such facilities around the world and only the second one in the United States. While many carbon capture technologies are being developed and studied in laboratory settings, the ITC is one of the few research and testing facilities at an operating coal-fired power plant. Laboratories cannot mimic the real-world conditions of a functioning coal-fired power plant. The ITC allows for real world testing at an active power plant and alleviates typical concerns over being able to transfer technology from a lab to a plant. Teams in the final round of the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE completed testing in late 2020 and the facility is welcoming new projects from MTR and GTI in 2021. Since coming online in 2019, the Wyoming ITC has attracted more than $100 million in carbon management projects.

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